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...seems we were mistaken. We have been paying a high price for very poor board. For the first two months the board was very fair, but in the last month it has become so poor that one often has to leave the table after having eaten barely enough to keep him alive...
...their apprenticeship and are ready to take up the labor of life.' Now, if the battle and labor of life mean, which they generally do, to earn one's living, these gallant A. B.s have hardly begun their apprenticeship. Even if a lad's father have money enough to keep him from the necessity of work, and his business life be simply the gentlemanly arts of helping to manage the estate and to fill a place in society, he will find a long training is necessary after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either...
...those who have not written their lives will be willing to devote an hour or two to writing them before class day. Of the postals I sent out last week asking for your permanent addresses, a large number remain unreturned to me. It will be impossible for me to keep a good record or to furnish you information about one another during future years unless you promptly send me your addresses. Delay or negligence in this will only make my work more difficult and its results less satisfactory, and I trust therefore that in regard both to this...
...appoint a vigilance committee to apprehend any stray freshmen who may be found craning their necks among the crowd about the forbidden tree? or will this be the duty of the president ex officio? or will the chivalrous spirit of Harvard smother the sense of injustice in them, and keep the freshmen at a respectful distance." Fortunately there is a different idea of the fit and beautiful prevalent at Harvard than at some places where, perhaps, vigilance committees have been found a valuable and essential factor in the dispositions of the social economy, or, when in default of a vigilance...
...stroke is nothing more than so many snatches at the water, but for all that the boat travels fast, and the rapidity of the rate should take the crew away from one rowing something like ten strokes a minute less; but it remains to be seen whether it can keep them in front of a boat propelled by long, telling strokes...